We had a farewell party for 9 M2 students who will be graduating this spring. Congratulations!

Monica Perusquia-Hernandez has joined our laboratory as Associate Professor as of March 1st, 2022.

Ms. Kono (M2) and Ms. Otsuka (M1) gave a presentation at Ubiquitous Wearable Workshop (UWW) 2021 on December 19th and 20th, 2021. Ms. Kono’s presentation won the Best Student Presentation Award. Congratulations to Ms. Kono! ▪️Message from Ms. Kono I More …

Mr. Hagimori (D2) gave an oral presentation at SigHaptics, the Virtual Reality Society of Japan which was held online from Nov. 29th to 30th. His presentation was about how changing the height of the seat changes the perception of one’s More …

[The call is closed as of July 9, 2021. Thank you very much for many applications!] Spring Seminar will be held from Feb 28 to Mar 2. The contents are as follows. If you are interested, please apply below. http://isw3.naist.jp/IS/PubWG/Spring2022/index-ja.html More …

Three M1 teams from our lab took on the challenge of the IVRC, a high-level VR competition for students, and performed very well. It was already an honor for us that all three teams advanced to the SEED STAGE, where More …

Ms. Xiaodan Hu (D1) has been accepted to the “Support Project for Innovative Doctoral Students in the Field of Multi-disciplinary Research in Advanced Science and Technology (NAIST Touch Stone)” under the JST SPRING (Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the More …

We welcomed four interns from August to October, 2021. Tamami Watanabe of Doshisha Univ. developed a smartphone app “AR Drum” using Unity, ARCore, and Maya in the first half, then developed an automatic feeding machine for an axolotl using Raspberry More …

Our former student Higashi’s paper has been accepted to Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics. His paper reports on the experiments in virtual reality that have found that visually modulating the avatars’ faces and gazes such that they appear to turn More …

We are calling for applicants for Assistant Professor position at Cybernetics and Reality Engineering (CARE) Laboratory, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. We are looking for a wide range of More …

Mr. Kizashi Nakano (D2)’s paper has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). It was accepted to the Journal Track of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2021 and will be More …

The Summer Seminar was held from August 10 (Tuesday) to 12 (Thursday). 9 students have participated among which 4 participated in person and 5 online. They worked on following topics. Development of AR Apps using AR Foundation and a smartphone More …

Our D3 student Zhang Yan’s paper has been accepted to Optics Letters. His paper reports on a novel optical see-through wide field-of-view (approximately 100 degrees horizontal) AR displays that are capable of hard-edge occlusion by using paired conical reflectors and More …

Three M1 teams of our laboratory challenged the IVRC, which is a high-level VR competition by students, and all three proposals passed the document screening and were selected to the SEED STAGE. Please look forward to future developments. FinGun: (team More …

[The call is closed as of July 9, 2021. Thank you very much for many applications!] We will hold Summer Seminar 2021 from August 10 to 12, 2021. Our laboratory accepts participants on the following two themes. Please apply for More …

Assi. Prof. Isoyama’s research was introduced in a TV program. The TV program name is Miraiyer (Mirai means Future in Japanese). This research was conducted when he was a assistant professor at Kobe University. In this study, he has designed More …

Hideaki Uchiyama has joined our laboratory as Associate Professor as of April 1st, 2021.

We welcomed six interns from February to March. Yuito Arisumi of Osaka Pref. Univ. College of Tech developed an AR app that recognizes speech and shows the text near the face using ARCore and Google Cloud Speech. Hiroki Yamaoka of More …

Mr. Hasegawa (M2) gave an oral presentation at INTERACTION 2021 which is the largest domestic conference on human computer interaction held from March 10, 2021 to March 12, 2021. Eiichi Hasegawa, Naoya Isoyama, Nobuchika Sakata, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, “Effects of More …

VIPO (Visual Industry Promotion Organization) has released the “Guidelines for Utilizing AR and Other Content Production Technologies” created with the support of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. This is a guideline for utilizing AR and other content production More …

The Spring Seminar was held from February 17 (Wednesday) to 21 (Friday) and 8 students have participated in it. At the Spring Seminar, 8 participants worked on application development like the followings. Use an M5Stack Gray to acquire motion data More …

Mr. Shikanai, Mr. Yokomi, and Mr. Higashi (M2) gave following presentations at an MVE workshop held online on January 21st and 22nd. Mr. Shikanai’s presentation was recognized as the best paper among those submitted to the MVE workshop and won More …

We exhibited a research demonstration named “Phantact: the Proteus Effect in the Real World” at CES 2021, an annual technology and innovation event which was held from January 11 to January 14, 2021. Normally, CES is held in Las Vegas, More …

Our students’ work “Kusuguttemi-na” was featured by TBS “Shinsaincho Matsumoto Hitoshi”. This system allows you to experience the feeling of being tickled by others by tickling yourself by wearing a VR goggle and a custom rubber gloves. By inflating the More …

Prof. Kiyokawa’s interview on the current and future of VR/AR technologies appeared in the Seikyo Shimbun on the New Year’s Day in 2021. “I had no connection at all with the newspaper, but it was a very good opportunity to More …

Our laboratory was featured on Yomiuri TV “Honwaka TV” from 19:00 on December 18th. Kizashi Nakano (D1) introduced the taste modulation system, and Masahiro Yoshimitsu (M1) introduced the self-tickling system. (Contents) https://www.ytv.co.jp/honwaka/contents/20201218.html “Tools of the Future by Using VR/AR” Cybernetics More …

Mr. Riku Otono from the University of Tokyo had a lab experience program from Dec. 7th to Dec. 18th. He developed a multi-modal AR system combining an olfactory display and an HMD. When you eat something you don’t like, it More …

Mr. Hagimori (D1) gave an oral presentation at SigHaptics, the Virtual Reality Society of Japan which was held online from Nov. 30th to Dec. 1st. His presentation was about how tendon vibration stimulus affects the movement of raising and lowering More …

Mr. Zhang Yan (D2) gave an oral presentation at a top conference on augmented reality, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2020. Conventional optical see-through HMDs have a narrow field of view and it is difficult to More …

We are calling for applicants for Associate Professor position at Cybernetics and Reality Engineering (CARE) Laboratory, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Please read the public advertisement below and submit More …